Dear Editor,
for years, straddling Italy and France and between the two countries and Europe, I have watched with great concern the current situation which is seriously deteriorating. Last year, around this time, the Franco-Italian summit met in Lyon. Relevant appointment to deal with the major dossiers in progress in a regular bilateral meeting. This year it was to be held in Rome. I see no trace of such a meeting either on the political or diplomatic side.
What is going on? An oversight for the excessive work of the politicians of the two countries? It would be very serious. Or have relations between the two countries deteriorated to such an extent that a meeting that is now more than necessary is shelved for the moment?
I believe that the significant industrial financial economic interests between the two countries and their history deserve a response to this political decision. I believe that the economic and financial operators must be duly and officially informed by the institutions of the two countries and give the reasons for the situation.
In my opinion, this decision not to speak openly is very serious. For several reasons:
- It helps to blow up Europe, the only lifeline for the weakest countries in Europe today including us.
- The important position of Brussels on the budget requires Italy today to have more allies than before, otherwise we risk suffering or being imposed on heavy decisions.
- I understand the choice of the current government to implement the tug-of-war tactic thinking that in the end Brussels will have to give in and let us blaze or give us more flexibility, but it is a very short-term policy. We must now more than ever take care of our businesses and protect them. We made great Italian capitalism disappear also due to the lack of attention and the complicity of inattentive or incompetent politicians. We are left with the medium-sized enterprise, the Italian excellences that foreign funds, investment banks and competing companies follow carefully. But our government does not seem to want to be interested in the industrial and productive question.
- The Government (and in the Government we rely on truly competent technicians and not on bankrupts promoted to "experts") must monitor the relevant sectors and not let us find ourselves faced with accomplished facts because we are in a free market. In France and Germany large private companies are followed with great attention and are not left free to leave the country because care is taken to offer them a favorable environment for the development of their activities. This doesn't happen to us. And just look at the Ilva case to understand it.
- In conclusion, if we do not choose our international partners well and above all if we do not have the ability to maintain and strengthen relations with France and Germany, we will not have a say in the major reform dossiers of the EU and we risk being marginalized and singled out as the cause main reason for the market turmoil and the possible euro crisis.
- The Salvinis and the di Maios are too young and have not experienced the period during which our entrepreneurs had launched the conquest of France where the local press portrayed our entrepreneurs as the Condottieri of the 500th century and expressed fear and respect.
Our big companies bought companies, there was an optimism and a dynamism unknown today. Here's what a real government of change should do: recover that mentality, not giving subsidies to everyone, but putting everyone in the best conditions to undertake and reward the best. And this can only be done if we strengthen our ties with democratic countries that believe in a market economy open to the rest of the world, such as France and Germany, which today we regard as enemies.
